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2 unusual facts about Italian War of 1499–1504


Italian War of 1499–1504

If the King Louis XII were to die without producing a male heir, Charles of the House of Habsburg would receive as dowry the Duchy of Milan, Genoa and its dependencies, the Duchy of Brittany, the counties of Asti and Blois, the Duchy of Burgundy, the Viceroyalty of Auxonne, Auxerrois, Mâconnais and Bar-sur-Seine.

The Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella were known to be fearful of a new rapprochement between Louis XII and the Italian powers.


Alvito Municipality

The Castle of Alvito was rebuilt between 1494 and 1504, and its architecture and decoration show an interesting mix of Manueline (Portuguese late Gothic) and Mudéjar (Arab-influenced) styles, typical of the Alentejo region.

Anna II, Abbess of Quedlinburg

Countess Anna of Stolberg-Wernigerode (28 January 1504 – 4 March 1574) was a German noblewoman who reigned as Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg from 1516 until her death.

Anne of Savoy

On 11 September 1478 in Milan, she married Frederick of Aragon, Prince of Squillace, Altamura and Tarento (1452–1504), the future King Frederick IV of Naples.

Anthony Cook

Anthony Cooke (1504–1576), tutor to the young Edward VI of England

Anthony of Burgundy

Anthony, bastard of Burgundy (1421–1504); the illegitimate son of Philip III, Duke of Burgundy

Armenians in Cyprus

By 1425, the renowned Magaravank – originally the Coptic monastery of Saint Makarios near Halevga (Pentadhaktylos region) – came under Armenian possession, as did sometime before 1504 the Benedictine/Carthusian nunnery of Notre Dame de Tyre or Tortosa (Sourp Asdvadzadzin) in walled Nicosia; many of its nuns had been of Armenian origin (such as princess Fimie, daughter of the Armenian King Hayton II).

Basilica Cathedral of Santa María la Menor

The Cathedral was consecrated by Pope Julius II in 1504 and its construction began in 1512 under the leadership of Bishop Fray García Padilla.

Bernhard Walther

Bernhard Walther (1430 – June 19, 1504) was a German merchant, humanist and astronomer based in Nuremberg, Germany.

Christoph von Stadion

Christoph von Stadion was born in Schelklingen in Mid-March 1478, the son of Nikolaus von Stadion (d. 1507) and his wife Agatha von Gültlingen (d. 1504).

Cocles

Bartolomeo della Rocca (1467–1504), called Cocles, an Italian scholar

David ben Judah Messer Leon

However, in 1495 the city fell to the French under Charles VIII, and he fled east to the Ottoman Empire to escape the violent pogroms that ensued, spending time in Istanbul before moving sometime between 1498 and 1504 to teach Torah in Salonica, at that time in a state of intellectual vibrancy due to the settlement there of many Sephardi exiles forced to leave after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, Sicily in 1493, and Portugal in 1496.

Edmund Dudley

Loades, David (1996): John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland 1504–1553 Clarendon Press ISBN 0-19-820193-1

Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Lisle

John Grey, 2nd Viscount Lisle (1481–1504), eldest son and heir, who married Muryell Howard, daughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk.

Eloy d'Amerval

In 1504 he was a canon and priest at the chapel in Châteaudun, northwest of Orléans and southwest of Chartres.

Ernest I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

#John V, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, later Anhalt-Zerbst (b. Dessau, 4 September 1504 - d. Zerbst, 4 February 1551).

Fernão de Loronha

The islands of Fernando de Noronha off the coast of Brazil, discovered by one of his expeditions and granted to Loronha and his heirs as a fief in 1504, are named after him.

George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

#Agnes (b. 1445 – d. Kaufungen, 15 August 1504), Abbess of Gandersheim (1485), of Neuenheerse (1486–1492) and of Kaufungen (1495)

Gerolama Orsini

Gerolama Orsini (1504–1570) sometimes Girolama Orsini was a member of the House of Orsini and the wife of Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma.

Greifensee, Zürich

In the year 1520, Zürich decided to reconstruct the ruins as residence of Zürich's Landvögte among them Heinrich Biberli (1403), Gerold Edlibach (1504) and Salomon Landolt (1776).

Hartmann Schedel

An album he had bound in 1504, which once contained five engravings by Jacopo de' Barbari, provides important evidence for dating de' Barbari's work.

Henry III of Nassau-Breda

Upon the death of his uncle in 1504 Henry inherited the Nassau possessions in the Netherlands, including the wealthy lordship of Breda in the duchy of Brabant.

Hugh Clopton

In 1504 William had livery of his great-uncle Hugh's manors of Clopton and Little Wilmcote, and his lands in Stratford and Bridgetown.

Into the Pandemonium

The cover image is a detail from the right (Hell) panel of The Garden of Earthly Delights, a triptych painted in 1504 by Hieronymus Bosch, now part of the permanent collection at the Prado in Madrid.

Jean Lemaire de Belges

In 1504 he was attached to the court of Margaret of Austria, duchess of Savoy, afterwards Regent of the Netherlands.

Johannes Mathesius

Johannes Mathesius (June 24, 1504 in Rochlitz – October 7, 1565), also called Johann Mathesius or John Mathesius, was a German minister and a Lutheran reformer.

Johannes Pistorius

Johann Pistorius the Elder (1504–1583), German Protestant minister, who participated in several religious disputations between Catholics and Protestants

John Yonge

He was ordained in 1500 and held several livings before receiving his first diplomatic mission to arrange a commercial treaty with the archduke of Austria in 1504, and in the Low Countries in 1506 in connection with the projected marriage between Henry VII and Margaret of Savoy.

Josquin des Prez

Josquin went directly from Ferrara to his home region of Condé-sur-l'Escaut, southeast of Lille on the present-day border between Belgium and France, becoming provost of the collegiate church of Notre-Dame on 3 May 1504, a large musical establishment that he headed for the rest of his life.

Katherine Neville

Katherine Neville, Baroness Hastings (1442–1504), daughter of Richard Neville and the sister of Warwick the Kingmaker

Knud Jeppesen

‘Das Volksliedgut in den Frottolenbüchern des Octavio Petrucci (1504–1514)’, Emlékkönyv Kodály Zoltán hatvanadik születésnapjára, ed.

Le Hien Tong

Lê Hiến Tông (黎憲宗 1461–1504), reforming ruler who implemented the legal code of his father Lê Thánh Tông

Pawo Tsuglag Threngwa

Pawo Tsuglag Threngwa (dpa' bo gtsug lag phreng ba; 1504–1566), the second Pawo Rinpoche, was a Tibetan historian of the Karma Kagyu.

Philip the Fair

Philip I of Castile (1478–1506), King of Castile, 1504–1506, and Duke of Burgundy, 1482–1506

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

William Grocyn pursued Valla's lines of text criticism, and Valla's critical viewpoint of the authorship of the highly influential Corpus was accepted and publicized by Erasmus from 1504 onward, for which he was criticized by Catholic theologians.

Qasim of Astrakhan

Qasim II of Astrakhan (died 1532), ruler of the Khanate of Astrakhan from 1504–1532

Ralph Baines

(Knowsthorpe, Yorkshire, ca. 1504 — Islington, 18 November 1559) was the last Roman Catholic bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, in England.

Richard Gardiner

By Audria, Gardiner had one child, Mary, who in 1504 married Sir Giles Alington, Knt.

Rosenblatt

Wibrandis Rosenblatt (1504–1564), German Christian active in the Protestant Reformation

Sebastian Brant

But when he realises that the Emperor is not up to the task, he writes to his fellow humanist Konrad Peutinger in Augsburg in 1504 that the role of Emperor could equally well be carried out by another people if the Germans were incapable of fulfilling the role that history had given them.

St John's Gate, Clerkenwell

St John's Gate is one of the few tangible remains from Clerkenwell's monastic past; it was built in 1504 by Prior Thomas Docwra as the south entrance to the inner precinct of the Priory of the Knights of Saint John - the Knights Hospitallers.

St. Michael Vanquishing Satan

The miniature was completed in 1504 or 1505 on the back of a draughtboard, possibly commissioned to express appreciation to Louis XII of France for conferring the Order of Saint Michael on Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Urbino's nephew and heir.

Taqiyya

In 1504, Ubayd Allah al-Wahrani, a Maliki mufti in Oran, issued a fatwā allowing Muslims to make extensive use of taqiyya in order to maintain their faith.

Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire

George Boleyn (c. 1504 – 17 May 1536); later Viscount Rochford (1529–1536) by courtesy

Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset

Sir John Grey, who married firstly Elizabeth Catesby, widow of Roger Wake (d. 16 May 1504) of Blisworth, Northamptonshire, and daughter of Sir William Catesby, and secondly Anne Barley or Barlee (d. 1557 or 1558), widow of Sir Robert Sheffield of Butterwick, Lincolnshire, Speaker of the House of Commons.

Władysław of Zator

#Agnes (bef. 1490 – aft. 1505), married before 1504 to Jan Kobierzycki, Count of Tworkow and Kobierzyn.


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